gc.garbage from paramiko

[Jan Hudec]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:55:39 -0800, Robey Pointer wrote:
> 
> On 10 Feb 2006, at 1:25, Jan Hudec wrote:
> 
> >I have just briefly looked at the code (development head) and indeed
> >some of the __del__ methods don't need to be there.
> >
> >For example SFTP_Client.__del__ - it only calls self.sock.close(), but
> >self.sock.__del__ will do that as well and python will call that  
> >anyway.
> 
> That's another useless one, thanks.  The one we're talking about on  
> paramiko that's problematic is SFTPFile, if you want to help out more  
> (trying not to spam bazaar-ng too much).

Um, yes, I see. It's tricky there. The buffers need to be flushed at some
point. And the SFTP_File.__del__ seems best place to do it.

It would be really interesting to know how the SFTP_File becomes part of
a cycle, or at least what cycle that is. Perhaps than something could be done
about it.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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